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b. Mass interest and crowds to the nature of basic Christian teaching and presentation, p. 55

c. Rooted discipleship training carefully tied to house church leaders and simple, reproducible curriculum (e.g., see the First Discipleship Training Center Curriculum on page 57)

(1) Genesis 1-10

(2) The Life of Christ

(3) The Book of Romans

(4) The Book of Jonah

(5) The Book of Ephesians

(6) How to Study the Bible

(7) How to Teach the Bible

(8) Personal Evangelism Training

d. Creative training with virtually few or none of the basic supplies taken for granted in Western contexts of training: e.g., pens, paper, Bible, food, sleep, space for training, etc., pp. 57-58

e. Operating in a tenuous environment with the State Religious Affairs Bureau and its directors, p. 59

6. The Yanyin Chinese CPM was characterized by widespread personal and mass evangelism, with immediate incorporation of new believers into basic discipleship Bible studies for a short period of time, p. 61.

a. At the conclusion of the studies, new believers were baptized.

b. Immediately, those who were suitable for leadership were immediately given responsibility to lead the public meetings of the believers.